M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES

 

GEORGE II/III DOUBLE SERIES OPAQUE TWIST WINE GLASS

England, c1760

 

    

 

     

Foot and Pontil                                                                                 Interior

 

       

 

The small bucket shaped bowl above on an intricate and delicate multi-thread opaque stem with central knop

and conical foot

 

Condition: Very good to excellent, without chips or reductions; small area of ridges where the bowl meets the stem;

very minor glass imperfection to the upper rim; the overall appearance quite delicate  

 

Very early 18th century English drinking glasses were quite heavy.  As the glasses became internationally popular, a large tax

was levied upon glass products by weight in 1746 - and additionally thereafter - usually to support a war.  Among the most

beautiful results of glassmakers' attempts to make glass both lighter - and more decorative - was to lighten the stems by poking

holes in them - first occurring as airtwist stems, and by 1760 as opaque, or cotton twist stems. Enamel (colored) stems also followed. 

English lead glass cooled slowly, enabling the spirals to be turned with absolute precision - a feature with faster-cooling soda metal

 glass lacked. The most interesting of these glasses have stems with knops or differing sections, known as composite stems.

 

6.25” High

 

SOLD

 

#5798

 

    

      Ridges beneath bowl                                                                 Small imperfection on rim   
 

 

 

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